City supports smoking ban in beaches, parks
October 6, 2022 - During the Thursday city council meeting, the city councilmembers unanimously voted to support an ordinance amending the St. Petersburg city code to ban smoking and vaping in city parks and beaches. No person shall use, consume, inhale, exhale, or burn any electronic cigarette, or lighted tobacco product, including cigarettes, pipe tobacco, and any other lighted tobacco product with the exception of unfiltered cigars, in or on public beaches owned or controlled by the city, according to the ordinance's language. If the ordinance is not vetoed by the mayor in accordance with the city charter, it shall become effective after the expiration of the fifth business day after adoption, according to city documents.